Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

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Eruption fountaining has finally concluded at around 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 14. Lava fountaining began once more from Halemaʻumaʻu crater at 9:32 a.m. This marks episode 49 of fountaining from the ...

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The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity. These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...